Lisa Fishman

Lisa Fishman is the author of Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, forthcoming 2020), 24 Pages and other poems (Wave, 2015), F L O W E R C A R T (Ahsahta Press, 2011), Current (Parlor Press, 2011) and The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta, 2009). A North American writer (US and Canadian), Fishman is working on dividing her time between Wisconsin, where she currently lives, and somewhere across the border.

ReviewsBrevity, oddity, familial joys and intermittent worries, and delight in rural space have come to be what we expect from Fishman.—Publishers Weekly

Fishman is laconic, witty, and faintly elegiac...—American Poets

Lisa Fishman is a writer who works —confidently, brilliantly—in close-up, often phrase to phrase, building texts that knock you over with their rhythms & insights even though it would be very difficult indeed to paraphrase what she’s doing.—Ron Silliman